apologies for radio silence... **takes deep breath preparing to say why**

met up with friends in la fortuna, had ice cream, went to hostel with pool, was british and got into pool despite rain and relative degrees of cold wind, had rum and cokes in pool, drank some more, ate seafood calzone, drank some more, apparently mumbled in sleep (apparently), booked volcano tour, read book in hammock, went on volcano tour (saw a wax tree, a laughing falcon, those ants that carry big pieces of leaves, bullet ants, regular ants, and lava), got free lift back from cool tour driver (also called Oli), 6 hours sleep, walked up massive hill with various members of local community (6:30am), had tuna, rice and frijoles (black bean) paste next to a waterfall, walked down hill, arrived home (4:30pm), had shower, slept, taught children,, went into la fortuna, had ice cream, talked in decent spanish to various shop owners, agreed to private classes with one woman, came home, watched boys at the house dissect massive beetles, ate dinner (without beetles... i hope) and still managed to have enough energy to burn Leo (one of boys at the house) at Chess. Hackemate!